The coming weeks could see Booking.com given the go ahead by ICANN for the .HOTELS top level domain. What that means is that the online accommodation giant will effectively control how and when .HOTELS is used, a thought that is sending shivers down the spine of some in the hotel industry. The Priceline-owned brand is [...]
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Sunday, October 7th, 2012VeriSign Sees More Domain Names – Analyst Blog
Saturday, October 6th, 2012The latest Domain Name Industry Brief published by VeriSign, Inc. (VRSN) saw the addition of more than 7 million domain names to the Internet in the second quarter of 2012. As a result, the total number of registered domain names expanded to more than 240 million worldwide across all domains, as of June 30, [...]
The Google Question
Wednesday, August 8th, 2012It has remained a mystery, an object of sometimes intense speculation, basically since new gTLDs first entered into conversations about digital strategy. “Talk all you want about their potential for online branding,” many digital marketers would say. “I want to know how Google is going to treat these new domains.” Some have argued that Google [...]
Demand Media’s White Paper On New gTLD’s
Wednesday, August 8th, 2012Demand Media, Inc. published a white paper (pdf) on the new gTLD’s today and I found it an interesting read. The paper is entitled: “The Opportunity for generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) Some of the highlights: “After years of planning and debate, a big change is coming to the way organizations and individuals identify themselves [...]
ICANN Orders Bulk Transfer of Domains From Two De-accreditated Registrars …
Friday, July 27th, 2012“ICANN has authorized the bulk transfer of Planet Online Corp’s gTLD domain names to NamesBeyond.com (“NamesBeyond”) due to a compliance action taken by ICANN that resulted in the de-accreditation of registrar Planet Online Corp. “ICANN has also authorized the bulk transfer of Name For Name, Inc.’s .com and .net names (which represent all gTLDs currently sponsored [...]
Rob Grant On The New gTLD’s: “Dot Com will Always Win The Horse Race”
Monday, July 23rd, 2012In an story and interview published about domainer Rob Grant a few days ago by whoapi.com, entitled From “Madison Avenue to Adirondacks – domainer millionaire” Rob was asked what he thought of the new gTLD’s: “Which new gTLD has the most potential? What’s your opinion on hundreds of new gTLD’s that are lining up?” Rob [...]
Two Years In, Sedo Domain Market Report Examines Performance of .CO …
Monday, July 23rd, 2012CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sedo, the world’s largest domain marketplace and monetization provider, today unveiled a report that highlights the success of the .co extension since its introduction two years ago today, on July 20, 2010. “Sedo has done an excellent job of helping to establish and develop the secondary market for premium .CO domain names, as it [...]
Melbourne IT Urges Brands to Swiftly Evaluate New Internet Domain Application …
Wednesday, July 18th, 2012MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–With fewer than four weeks of ICANN’s official public-comment period for the 1,930 new Top Level Domain applications remaining, online brand specialist Melbourne IT Digital Brand Services (DBS) today urged brands to prioritize the assessment of potential risks and promptly respond before the comment window closes on August 12th. “It is not [...]
Internet Adds More Domain Names – Analyst Blog
Tuesday, July 17th, 2012According to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief published by VeriSign Inc. (VRSN), approximately seven million names were added to the Internet in the first quarter of 2012. Therefore, the total number of registered domain names increased to approximately 233 million on a worldwide basis. The addition of 7.5 million domain names represents a 3.3% [...]
With The Domain Space Only Growing By 17 Million A Year, Where Will All The …
Thursday, July 12th, 2012We know that .com/.net registrations as of the last report sits at 116 million registrations is growing at the rate 8 million new registrations a year. We also know including the 116 million .com/.net registrations, there are 225 million domains name registered as of March 31, 2012 with 10% or some 20 million new registrations [...]
Yahoo! Japan Saves Time Deploying Multiple SSL Certificates with GlobalSign Managed SSL
Tuesday, July 10th, 2012Yahoo! Japan will save time and money deploying multiple SSL certificates with GlobalSign’s managed solution Yahoo! Japan announced on Monday that it has adopted GlobalSign‘s managed SSL service in an effort to decrease time and resources associated with managing and deploying multiple SSL certificates. This news comes three weeks after GlobalSign announced a partnership with [...]
Still infected, 300,000 PCs to lose Internet access July 9
Saturday, July 7th, 2012If you haven’t already seen the screaming headlines across the blogosphere declaring the arrival of Internet Armageddon for a quarter-million PCs because of a virus, allow us to get you up to speed. Believe it or not, some of the 4 million computers hijacked by Estonian and Russian hackers through a long-running botnet called DNSChanger [...]
DNSChanger Deadline is Monday. Are You Ready?
Friday, July 6th, 2012Come Monday, there will be some people who won’t be able to get on the Internet from their computers. Will you be one of them? Hopefully not. According to the latest FBI estimates from July 5, approximately 64,000 computers in the United States are expected to lose Internet access when the temporary Domain Name System [...]
ICANN Publishes List of Applications in gTLD Expansion Program
Wednesday, July 4th, 2012Over the last year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has been engaged in the first round of its planned expansion of generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) names. gTLDs are internet domains with general address extensions, such as .com, .net and .edu. There are presently 22 gTLDs, and this expansion plan could add [...]
BBB warns of DNS Changer Virus
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012Tuesday, July 03, 2012 12:00 AM | Printer friendly version | E-mail to a friend | Comments Updated Tuesday, July 03, 2012 9:32 AM body .images_wrapper{margin-top: 10px;} .photo_pictopia, a.photo_pictopia{color: blue; display: inline; float: left; font-size: 7pt; font-weight: bold; padding-left: 5px;} ]]> Internet access dominates our lives. People use the Internet for work, for school, to [...]
4 steps to prepare for the new gTLD expansion
Monday, July 2nd, 2012The internet is about to expand on a massive scale in 2013, and we can see the possible contours of that expansion with the recent release of the list of more than 1,900 applications for new generic top-level domains. When you consider that, currently, there are only 22 top-level domains — the portion of a [...]
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Internet Adds More Domain Names
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